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London UniversityThe artificial lattherapy tool can discover two thirds of the brain lesions in the brain, the UK researchers say, and pave the way for more targeted surgery to stop seizures.
One out of five people suffering from epilepsy – a total of 30,000 in the UK – has unveiled seizures caused by very hidden brain abnormalities so that the human eye cannot see.
Epilepsy for children says the artificial intelligence tool has “enormous potential” and opens the treatment ways.
But more studies are needed on long -term benefits for patients before they are licensed and used in clinics.
The brain deformities called focal cortical dysplasia are a common cause of epilepsy, especially when the drugs cannot control seizures.
Thinking affects people in different ways – symptoms include irritation and shaking, becoming severe and loss of consciousness – and can mean regular visits to accident and emergency units.
Removing a small part of the brain can be a safe and effective way to stop it – but if the radiologists are not able to see small pests on brain tests, diagnosis, treatment and surgery can be delayed.
“Really difficult”
For this study, It was published in Jamaa NeuroscienceThe researchers, from the King’s College in London and the University of London University, feed their tools to photograph magnetic tools (MRI) from more than 1,185 adults and children in 23 hospitals worldwide, 703 of them suffer from brain abnormalities.
The researcher, Dr. Conrad Wagtel, said, which may mean that the tool, Meld Graph, was able to process images more quickly than the doctor – and for more detail – which means more treatment in time, and expensive tests and procedures.
Artificial intelligence will require human oversight, however, many homosexuals still miss.
“It is like finding one character on five pages of a solid black text,” said Dr. Weststel.
“I can find artificial intelligence about two -thirds that doctors lose – but it is still difficult to find a third.”
In a hospital in Italy, the tool has identified a hidden scourge lost by radiologists, in a 12 -year -old boy who tried nine different drugs but is still exposed to seizures every day.
King College London“It had the possibility to” determine the rapid distortions that could be removed and may treat epilepsy. “
She said that the uncontrolled epilepsy was “deficit.”
Many of the children you see as a consultant at the Great Ormond Street Hospital had years of seizures and investigations before finding a lesion.
The charitable epilepsy procedure said that the capabilities of the new artificial intelligence tool are “really exciting” and could give people a faster diagnosis, but it has not resolved the issue of the absence of nurses for epilepsy specialists in England.
“It is still too early, and as always, we must advance with caution,” said Li Sander of the Epilepsy Association.
The researchers hope to obtain official approval to use Meld Graph as a diagnostic tool – but other experiments are required first to investigate the long -term benefits for patients who are discovered in the brain.
Meanwhile, the search team made the tool available on open source programs, so that it can be used for clinical research by hospitals all over the world.